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Diabetic's Amputation Suit Set for Trial
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2003, page 25
A federal district court in Illinois has held a diabetic detainee's claim of deprivation of medical treatment is sufficient to deny the doctor's motion for summary judgment. Cook County Jail pre-trial detainee Andrew Spencer filed a 42 U.S. C. §1983 action alleging on Eighth Amendment violation of deliberate indifference to …
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